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Latest Stop on the Journey of Life

Hello, all. Greetings from New York’s Hudson Valley, where I’m currently living.

The Mighty Hudson River

It’s the latest stop in a varied journey. I went to school in four countries starting in India, with time in France, Zambia, and the United States. Smith College let go of me with a BA in French (and a passion for learning other languages) and Brandeis University kindly gave me an MA in Anthropology (with some good tools for learning just about everything else.) Many of my jobs, from computer-programming to fact-checking, were all about precision and reality, until finally I went over to the dark side–writing fiction. My one athletic exploit has been to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, but I must confess, I got pushed up to the summit.

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Guest Blog for Penguin India

Interview with Julie of “Girls Just Reading”

Becoming a Novelist–Have a Listen

Jana Bibi-Audio

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My mom with Padmini and Lalitha, dancers and film stars. Their younger sister Ragini was also in show biz. Left to right: my mom with Padmini and Lalitha, two of the three Travancore Sisters. They were hugely popular dancers and film stars, and our next-door neighbors in Chennai. My mother had trained as a ballet dancer, and took up Bharatanatyam, getting good enough to do a performance with them. More Travancore Sisters pictures are on my blog. Photo credit: Woodman Family Collection